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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday; 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Posted Date
05/19/2025
Salary Range: $33.63 - 54.11 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
23790

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology is seeking a detailed and dynamic Clinical Research Coordinator. In this role, you will coordinate research studies, identify participants, and assist the Principal Investigator (PI) with patient eligibility. Responsibilities also include facilitating the informed consent process, educating participants about protocol requirements, and emphasizing the significance of protocol compliance. The role requires maintaining all necessary documentation in accordance with FDA regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, and the funding source. This includes managing patient registration, data, and treatment assignment. This role will involve quality control and assurance activities related to study workflows and documentation. In addition, the Clinical Research Coordinator is responsible for procuring and distributing study supplies, including coordinating specimen collection and shipping. Ensuring the safe and accurate completion of protocol-required procedures according to regulatory guidelines, FDA CFR, GCP, and institutional best practices is essential. 

Target hourly rate: $33.63-$54.11

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelors Degree or 2+ years of previous study coordination or clinical research coordination experience
  • Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration and to work as a member of a team.
  • Ability to effectively communicate to and interact with patients in a compassionate and kind manner.
  • Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations.
  • Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
  • Close attention to detail to ensure accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
  • Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.
  • A learning and professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently
  • Working knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively establish rapport, building collaborative relationships, and communicate complex concepts and ideas in an easy-to-understand manner.
  • Ability to adapt to changing job demands and priorities, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines.
  • High degree of concentration and focus in a work environment that contains distracting stimuli, competing deadlines, and work delegated by more than one individual
  • Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.